Y&T Rep Company

Y&T Rep Company in association with Oxford House Theatre – The breakthrough for young actors!

Y&T Rep Company is dedicated to providing outstanding opportunities for young performers. We strive to create a company of excellence that coaches young actors in the core fundamental skills required to become a professional actor.

Run by award winning actress and director Suzann McLean MA PP and David Fielding (casting director and playwright) to give young Actors a chance to perform and to express themselves with realistic and honest material that is a true representation of what it is like to be a teenager in society today.

Winners of a BBC Performing Arts Award and have secured a position at the brand new SPOTLIGHT in poplar. There will be two youth theatre groups in the new £7 million pound venue the other one being the National Theatre. So the Y&T REP are really proving themselves within the industry.

Reputation for building careers and coaching young actors so they can achieve real recognition in the industry. Our actors have gone on to appear in TV Dramas, BAFTA winning comedies, West End Musicals and British Films.

At Y&T Rep Company industry standard equipment and working practices are used to achieve a professional quality giving a true reflection of the industry. We aim to help young people become part of the contemporary theatre revolution and drive changes in the entertainment industry.

PAST PRODUCTIONS

The Killing Class by David Fielding

“Thrilling and emotionally charged drama”
“Super Energized Horror and Humour”
“The Killing Class is ‘Scum’ meets ‘The History Boys’ with a ‘Romeo & Juliet’ twist; the protagonists are young people who deal with violence, anger, fear, and hope in their lives. What makes this play different from all other productions is that this play shows fearlessly the truth about the lives of young offenders behind bars. Without hiding anything. This play speaks directly to young people who are dealing with Justice and those who have already made the wrong decisions in life but now want to change.”

The Half Stitched Healing Club

Set in a run-down church hall in Ilford, 12 women gather to stitch away their pain under the guidance of Greek Guru Adonis, the master quilter. Friendships, desire, love and life are explored as the tension of the story is kept at a constantly exhilarating pitch. The characters are completely diverse in their racial, cultural and generational compositions which lends to the dynamic realism of their personal situations and journeys throughout the story.

‘Sewing isn’t the only thing these women signed up for!’

A comedy drama performed by the newly formed East London drama group, Mind, Body and Soul funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.

Jayden’s War by David Fielding

During the riots of 2011 Jae Williams was arrested for stealing a pair of trainers and left behind his two year old son Jayden. 14 years llater Jayden, just like his father, wants change. It’s now 2025, there are 5 million unemployed and Society is split into two sections, unemployed youths in The Hollow and the higher intelligence above ground. The world is a more dismal place and more segregated than ever.

In 2025 London’s streets are littered with youths, many with PhDs but all with no jobs, no money and no hope of a better life. The government want a solution. Pushing youths into volunteering programmes to keep them off the streets hasn’t worked. So now they’ve built a city underground to clear the streets of the scum.

Only people of the highest intelligence are picked to live above ground working long hours and watched over by androids whilst the others are put in The Hollow an underground society where people are put to work like slaves and forgotten about with no chance of escape.]

Riots have been a part of London’s history since 1189 with the most recent being 2011. Y&T Rep Company have worked in partnership with London Metropolitan Archives on this Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots project to explore the history of gangs and riots in London. History moves on but the reason we riot has not changed. Money, education, oppression, recession.]

In Jayden’s War there are no mobile phones, no tablets or PCs. Instead there are Google glasses and IT scrolls. These are prototypes in development as we speak.

DYING OUT LOUD – A brand new play Written by David Fielding and Directed by Suzann McLean.

The play is set in a comprehensive secondary school in East London.

The action takes place 5 months after a school shooting leaves 5 dead, including the shooter.<

7 students survived and now face a rough recovery – physically and mentally picking up the pieces of their traumatised lives. But something just doesn’t add up, the shooter was the schools star pupil with no outwardly reasons why he would do such a thing. The police have closed the case, but is that the end? And if not, then ‘whodunit’.

The Y&T Rep Company was created by Suzann McLean and David Fielding in collaboration with Oxford House to give young Actors a chance to perform and to express themselves with realistic and honest material that is a true representation of what it is like to be a teenager in society today. The Y&T REP Company are winners of a BBC Performing Arts Award to produce this at play at the brand new theatre venue – SPOTLIGHT.

Y&T Rep Company is dedicated to providing outstanding opportunities for young performers, designers and technicians. We aim to help young people become part of the contemporary theatre revolution and drive changes in the entertainment industry.

Y&T Rep Company is a subsidiary of Young and Talented School of Stage and Screen who have been nurturing and developing young people since 2004. Our actors have gone on to work in Film: Vendetta, Columbite Tantalite, Gangsta Granny, TV: Casualty, Youngers, Eastenders, Stage: Twelfth Night, Finian’s Rainbow.

Cinderella Innit! by David Fielding

‘Come and join in the marvellous celebrations on this modern twist to a classic tale…’

Cinderella, Ella to her mates, lives with her wicked and nasty Stepmother Donna and her Ugly nasty Stepsister’s Coco and Teenie, above their kebab shop in Bethnal Green.

That’s Donna’s Kebab’s. Things have been tough since her mum passed away… then the news comes that Teen Pop sensation Denny D is looking for a special lady to sing with him at his concert for One Night Only! The search is on, every lady in town is invited. That is everyone but Cinderella according to Donna and her two kebabs… But wait, there is hope – in the form of her drunken father, her amazing vocal chords and her ever faithful besty Jonsey.